Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

Catharsis is about cleansing and healing at one and the same time - healing memories and attitudes, healing the spirit and the heart.

In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.

Change is as inexorable as time, yet nothing meets with more resistance.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

Then I fall asleep with a stupid feeling of wishing to be different from what I am or from what I want to be; perhaps to behave differently from the way I want to behave or do behave.

This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

That's all right with me, I like changes.

how different we were back then; we don't even recognize ourselves from that period.

God can't clean the house of you when you're still in it.

Imagining God can be so different from wishful thinking, if your spiritual experiences change your behavior over time. Have you become more generous, which is the ultimate healing? Or more patient, which is a close second? Did your world become bigger and juicier and more tender? Have you become ever so slightly kinder to yourself? This is how you tell.